Women’s Role in Education Shifts to Leading
By Deborah Jeanne Sergeant From the one-room schoolhouse to present times, women have always experienced a strong presence in teaching. But in more recent years, women have become more…
Educator is considered the architect behind OCC’s culture of evidence-based decision-making
By Mary Beth Roach Growing up in a fishing village in Ghana, Agatha Awuah learned the power of education. She would go on to become a first-generation college student…
A product of the SUNY system, she has overseen a steady growth in enrollment at OCC
By Mary Beth Roach As the senior vice president for administration, enrollment and finance at Onondaga Community College, Sarah Gaffney oversees the business functions as it applies to recruitment…
Program director is involved in developing curriculum, enrollment, community awareness and forming partnerships
By Mary Beth Roach “I think it’s so cool to be a part of each one of my student’s stories. They want to be here. They want to better…
Educator is proud of fostering greater communication among the district’s schools and employees
By Mary Beth Roach Jennifer King-Reese has been a part of the Syracuse City School District for decades and coming up through the district both as a student and…
She became a trailblazer in 2014 as the first lay female president of a Jesuit college in the U.S.
By Mary Beth Roach Since becoming president of LeMoyne College, Linda LeMura has taken the school to new heights. (Please forgive the pun, since LeMoyne’s nickname is “The Heights.)…
From student to dean, administrator is settling into new position
By Stefan Yablonski Jennifer Nichols is Cayuga Community College’s new dean for academic services and is the primary administrator at the Fulton campus. “It’s a new position at the…
As the founder of the physical therapist assistant program, she now serves as both its director and an instructor
By Mary Beth Roach Kirsten Nielsen is not only the program director for the physical therapist assistant program at Bryant & Stratton on James Street in Syracuse, she also…
P-TECH principal is following in her grandmother’s footsteps
By Stefan Yablonski Amanda Petrie’s grandmother “my beloved ‘Mimi’” had three children and simultaneously earned a master’s degree in English and then later became assistant superintendent in Livonia, Michigan.…
Her father once observed she had more degrees than a thermometer
By Mary Beth Roach Teaching runs in Lindi Quackenbush’s family. Both her parents were elementary school teachers in her native Australia and encouraged her education. A professor in the…